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New Year, New House Majority
Jerrold Nadler, U.S. Representative (D, NY-10), incoming chair of the House Judiciary Committee, talks about his committee's focus with Democratic control of the House, including border wall funding and how to protect the Mueller investigation.
"You can’t say ‘[migrants] should come at an official port of entry’ and then close, for all practical purposes, the ports of entry. People are entitled to claim political asylum… and a [border] wall has nothing to do with that. They’re not trying to hide," @RepJerryNadler.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) January 2, 2019"What the [Trump] administration is doing is not just closing the border entry points, they’re doing everything they can to make it miserable to people. That’s why we have kids dying at the border… that’s why we have kids dying in our custody," says @RepJerryNadler.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) January 2, 2019"We want to protect the Mueller investigation and allow it to continue so they can follow the facts where they lead. We will call in [acting Attorney General] Whitaker… they will give us a date or we will subpoena him," says @RepJerryNadler.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) January 2, 2019"Impeachment is intended as a defense of the Republic against a President who would aggrandize power, destroy liberty, destroy separation of powers. We would need to see real evidence that the President has done various things with that goal in mind," says @RepJerryNadler.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) January 2, 2019"If we could prove that, and if we were going to impeach the President, that would be article number six, you’d have to see much more serious things." 2/2 https://t.co/sNklylRyyF
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) January 2, 2019